In-Home Occupational Therapy services options:
Outpatient Rehabilitative, Habilitative, and Maintenance Occupational Therapy (OT) Services for Adults
Transfer Training and Injury Prevention for Caregivers
Home Safety and Modification Recommendations
Equipment and assistive devices for adaptive strategies and improved home and community safety
Cognitive Therapy and retraining; activity modification
Safe and Reliable Medication Management
Dementia Care
Fall prevention
Stress and Anxiety Management
Lifestyle and Wellness Coaching
Personalized Exercise Programs including Strength and Balance Training, Tai Chi, Gentle and Chair Yoga, and Meditation.
Dementia Care
Skills2Care is an evidence-based, program for caregivers of persons living with dementia. Through individualized sessions with the caregiver, specific challenge areas in dementia care are identified. The Occupational Therapist then works with the caregiver to devise strategies and recommendations for supporting positive communication, engagement in self-care routines, and addressing specific challenge areas encountered when providing care. With stress reduction and more harmonious care management goals, strategies are taught and provided to the caregiver to support the care partnership.
Examples of challenging behaviors demonstrated by the person with dementia include:
Lack of Activity Engagement
Repetitive Questioning
Resistance to Care
Shadowing (following closely) a caregiver/person from room to room
Hallucinations/Delusions (believing somebody is within the home, or trying to get in)
Agitation, boredom and Restlessness
Incontinence Management
Verbal and/or Physical Aggression and outbursts
Outcomes of the Skills2Care program for caregivers include:
Reduced stress for care partners and individuals
Improved communication in care partnership
Environmental modifications for improved home safety
Conflict Reduction
Increased Activity Participation
Stress, Anxiety Reduction for Caregiver
Tamasin has experience working with different types of Dementia including:
Mild Cognitive Impairment
Alzheimer's Disease
Vascular Dementia
Frontotemporal Dementia
Lewy body Dementia
Parkinson's Dementia
Wernicke Korsikoff Syndrome
Skills2Care can be integrated into a Plan of Care for an individual receiving outpatient skilled OT services under Medicare B with a doctors referral. Skills2Care can also be offered direct to the caregiver with private consultative services.
“Caregiving, as well as managing the household of a family member with dementia can be an overwhelming combination of tasks. Working with Tamasin through Skills2Care gave me the confidence I needed to manage those challenges, and therefore improve my outlook on the situation.
With her expert guidance, together we identified problems and came up with useful strategies to improve my mother’s care and quality of life, as well as reduce my own stress as a caregiver.
Tamasin has a good understanding of dementia, is a supportive listener, and is a creative problem solver. I am so grateful for the Skills2Care program!”